Soldato
I said less or no profit margin.
iPhone SE 2020
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I said less or no profit margin.
Yes, so you think an OLED screen on the SE could potentially have reduced the Apple profit margin to zero.
Soldato
Ha ha, I'm not sure I've ever seen power to weight quoted against a phone before, wow. I'd better duck out of this thread too before things will get silly... Maybe it's the most red per amount of letters in it's name or something...
Caporegime
I am trying to find a metaphor which has meaning, in terms of CPU clock speed with the number of pixels it is pushing.
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Caporegime
They could easily do a lot to the SE but if they offer too much they'll kill their higher end phone sales. Apple will have done their homework on this.
The SE has to look a bit dated and uncool, it's the functional option to get people to upgrade from older phones when they would have otherwise just kept their 6/6S/7. Like you say they need that halo for their top end stuff to drive the yearly upgraders.
Of course but without the SoC the product would have been average. Hopefully this will give Google a kick up the chuff to develop it's own SoC.
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I suspect the vast majority of SE buyers won't care or have a clue about what SoC the phone contains. It's just a cheap iPhone.
Soldato
Well you’d have to factor in the design and production line changes into the price as well as the higher price of the OLED screen.
What's great about getting a phone like this with the A13 in it, is that I'd bet this phone will get more than 5 years worth of updates.
CPU capability has jumped leaps and bounds the last 4 years. More than 4x faster in single core benchmark speeds and 8x faster in multicore. So while 4 years after the release of the iPhone 6, and 6 Plus, those phones are now capped at iOS12, I find it unlikely that the core OS would become so much more demanding in 5 years that a more powerful chip than the A13 would be required for the basics. Pop a new battery in it and some people may end up keeping this phone for as long as they kept some of the old old Nokias.
CPU capability has jumped leaps and bounds the last 4 years. More than 4x faster in single core benchmark speeds and 8x faster in multicore. So while 4 years after the release of the iPhone 6, and 6 Plus, those phones are now capped at iOS12, I find it unlikely that the core OS would become so much more demanding in 5 years that a more powerful chip than the A13 would be required for the basics. Pop a new battery in it and some people may end up keeping this phone for as long as they kept some of the old old Nokias.
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It's been confirmed the SE camera is identical to the 8 - people have swapped them around and worked the same, its just the CPU processing is different on the SE2
I read some (completely unsubstantiated) rumours that iOS 14 might be coming to the 6S, which was due to be 'dropped' from upgrades after iOS 13.
Indeed. It takes better photos than the 8 and all the older phones though, So it’s all good.
Caporegime
Indeed. It takes better photos than the 8 and all the older phones though, So it’s all good.
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Actually got it in the post today ! Happy with it other than losing all my keychain passwords. I don’t know how that has happened :/
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Can’t have. Is keychain turned on, on both devices. Old and new? and logged in with same account both old and new?